I have always been very partial to Walter Williams–he was the speaker at the college graduation of one of my daughters, and I was impressed.  He is a logical, down to earth, practical thinker.

Walter Williams has an article in today’s Washington Times about the myth that is being taught to the American people on global warming.  There is still a lot of disagreement on whether global warming is happening and what is responsible for it if it is happening.  Mostly it is being used as a justification for more government control in our everyday lives–the cars we drive, eventually the temperatures we keep our houses at, and the use of America’s own energy resources.  The best site I have found with actual scientific data on what is happening with worldwide climates is whatsupwiththat.com which also shows you where some of the temperature sensing devices are located.

Walter Williams points out in the article that more scientists are beginning to be aware of the possibility of ‘global cooling’.  For me, the bottom line is the fact that the jury is still out on exactly what is happening, and thus, what we should do about it.  There have been articles written on the lack of sunspot activity in recent years that would account for a cooling trend.  This makes sense, but it also points out to us that we are not in control of the climate.  To think that we are is just extreme pride on our part.  I am all for being good stewards of the earth, but I don’t think paying ‘carbon credits’ or not using our own energy resources falls into that category.  I will believe the ‘global warming’ alarmists when their lifestyles reflect the panic they are trying to create.  At the last global warming conference, most of the attendees arrived in private jets.  I’m not impressed.